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diff --git a/loading/progress.ts b/loading/progress.ts
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+import { writable, type Writable } from 'svelte/store'
+
+/**
+ * Phase the loading pipeline is in.
+ *   `idle`      nothing running yet; percentage is 0.
+ *   `loading`   a load is in flight; percentage advances 0 → 1.
+ *   `complete`  load finished; percentage is 1.
+ */
+export type LoadingPhase = 'idle' | 'loading' | 'complete'
+
+/** Reactive snapshot of the loading pipeline. */
+export interface LoadingProgress {
+  readonly percentage: number
+  readonly currentMessage: string
+  readonly phase: LoadingPhase
+}
+
+const DEFAULT: LoadingProgress = {
+  percentage: 0,
+  currentMessage: 'Preparing your reading space',
+  phase: 'idle'
+}
+
+/** Global store of the initial-load progress. Components subscribe via `$`. */
+export const loadingProgress: Writable<LoadingProgress> = writable(DEFAULT)
+
+/** Reset the store to its initial state. Useful between sessions in dev. */
+export function resetLoadingProgress(): void {
+  loadingProgress.set(DEFAULT)
+}
diff --git a/loading/session.ts b/loading/session.ts
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+/**
+ * The three states the Begin screen can render.
+ *
+ *   `first-ever`            no world exists on device yet. Only option is
+ *                           to begin (create the first world + character).
+ *   `returning-active`      a world exists with a currently-active player
+ *                           character. Primary option is to continue them.
+ *   `returning-no-active`   a world exists but the current character has
+ *                           died (or been ended) without a successor yet.
+ *                           Primary option is to pick a successor via the
+ *                           continuation flow.
+ */
+export type BeginState =
+  | { readonly kind: 'first-ever' }
+  | { readonly kind: 'returning-active'; readonly characterName: string }
+  | { readonly kind: 'returning-no-active' }
+
+/**
+ * Inspect device-local state and decide which Begin variant to show. The
+ * real implementation queries IndexedDB for worlds and the currently
+ * active player character; while persistence is still being wired up this
+ * returns `first-ever` unconditionally.
+ */
+export async function detectBeginState(): Promise<BeginState> {
+  return { kind: 'first-ever' }
+}
diff --git a/loading/stub.ts b/loading/stub.ts
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+import { loadingProgress } from '@hollowdark/loading/progress'
+
+const STUB_DURATION_MS = 3000
+
+/**
+ * Stand-in for the real content-manifest fetch and chunk download. Animates
+ * the loading progress store from 0 to 1 over three seconds of wall-clock
+ * time, then resolves. Replace with the real pipeline when content loading
+ * comes online.
+ */
+export function runStubInitialLoad(): Promise<void> {
+  loadingProgress.set({
+    percentage: 0,
+    currentMessage: 'Preparing your reading space',
+    phase: 'loading'
+  })
+
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const startedAt = performance.now()
+
+    const tick = (): void => {
+      const elapsed = performance.now() - startedAt
+      const pct = Math.min(1, elapsed / STUB_DURATION_MS)
+      const done = pct >= 1
+
+      loadingProgress.set({
+        percentage: pct,
+        currentMessage: 'Preparing your reading space',
+        phase: done ? 'complete' : 'loading'
+      })
+
+      if (done) {
+        resolve()
+        return
+      }
+
+      requestAnimationFrame(tick)
+    }
+
+    requestAnimationFrame(tick)
+  })
+}